Support for stools, chairs, &amp;c.



No. 632,304. Patented Sept. 5, I899. S. ALSBERG.

SUPPORT FOR STOOLS, CHAIRS, 81.0.

(Application filed Jan. 9, 1899.)

(No Model.)

SAMUEL ALSBERG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SUPPORT FOR STOOLS, CHAIRS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632.304, datedSeptember 5, 1899.

Application filed January 9, 1899. Serial No. 701,649. (No model.)

To all wit/1711, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL ALSBERG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvementsin Supports for Stools,Chairs, 'la bles, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in supports for stools, chairs,tables, and similar articles, and has for its primary object the readyattachability and detachability of the supports by forming the same ofspring metal, whereby the usual fastening means--such asscrews,gluing,and the like-may be dispensed with. Another object is tohave the springsupports so formed of bent metal that they may not onlybe readily attached to and de tached from stools, chairs, and the like,but when attached will form a firm support and be securely attached tosuch article and when detached may be nested so as to occupy the minimumspace in transportation.

These and such other objects as may hereinafter appear are attained bythe devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1represents an inverted plan View of a stool having supports appliedthereto embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation ofthe same, and Fig. 3 rep resents a perspective view of an embodiment ofmy invention in its preferred form.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in the severalfigures of the drawings.

The legs may be formed singly or in pairs or otherwise-that is to say,the supports, corresponding to the ordinary legs of a stool, chair,table, or the like, may have either one or a plurality of membersdesigned to rest upon the floor, and as such support is composed of bentspring metal the legs in any event, Whether formed singly or plurally,will and afiord a means in conjunction with a retaining device on thestool for firmly holding the legs in operative extended position.

In the drawings I have illustrated the embodiment of my invention in itspreferred formthat is, in which the support has a pair of dependingmembers or legs A, designed to rest upon the floor, each one of which isarranged to come substantially at a corner of the stool, chair, or otherarticle. These depending members' are connected by a crossbar B, bent toany suitable form, and at each end the sup portis provided with angularends 0, adapted to engage sockets D, provided on the stool, chair, orother article. In the drawings I have shown these sockets as furnishedby ordinary eyebolts screwed or driven into the bottom of the stool inproper position; but obviously any other means fox-providing a socket,such as a small cast plate or a recessed socket in the bottom itself,would so readily suggest itself to one skilled in this art as to notrequire illustration herein. Adjacent to the angular ends of the supportthe terminals thereof are properly bent to form shoulders, such as E,affording a rest for the stool thereon between the point of itsattachment to the stool and the leg A upon the floor.

Of course if simply attached in the manner described and sole reliancewere placed upon the friction of the angular ends 0 in the eyes D thesupports or legs would be liable to easy displacement or collapse inuse, and indeed this collapsibility is an advantageous feature when itis desirable to fold the stool, chair, or other article in acomparatively small compass, as the supports will turn upon the angularends as pivots and fold upon each other pair of legs or dependingmembers, as illus- I00 trated in the preferred form of my inventionshown in the drawings, I prefer that the retaining device should engagethe cross-barB at about midway between the legs A, the retaining devicebeing simply a hook F, over which the baris swung, as shown by thedotted lines in Fig. 1, so as to, in effect, give the supporttemporarily three points of attachment to the stool.

In attaching and detaching the support either or both of the terminalsthereof may be swung inward, as illustrated by the dotted lines in Fig.1, until the angular ends 0 thereof are disengaged from the sockets D.Of course it is my intention that when the socketsare engaged by theangular ends such ends shall be sufliciently compressed between thesockets to afiord a tight frictional engagement therewith to preventrattling, and this result is promoted by so placing the retaining deviceF that when the bar Bis swung over the same and engages the hook it willalso be under a tension at right angles to the tension of the terminals.Such a three-point en gagement with the stool or other article and suchthree-point rests for the stool upon the support affords great rigidityto the structure, rendering the same as firm as if the parts werescrewed or otherwise rigidly secured together. The ready detachabilityof the support is also of considerable commercial advantage, becausewhen detached from the stool the supports will readily nest into thesmallest possible compass for transportation, and as the means ofattaching the same to stools and chairs are so simple the support may besold as an independent article of manufacture for attachment to variousarticles of furniture.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a stool, chair or similar article provided withsockets, of a support, constituting a leg therefor, consisting of bentspring metal having angular ends disposed on substantially a common axisand loosely pivoted in the sockets in the stools, &c. and provided withshoulders adjacent to said ends adapted to form a rest for the stools,the. substantially as described.

2. The combination with a stool, chair or similar article provided withsockets, of asupport constituting a leg therefor, consisting of bentspring metal having angular ends disposed on substantially a common axisand loosely pivoted in the sockets in the stools, &c., and provided withshoulders adjacent to said ends adapted to form a restfor the stools,(SIC. and a retaining device on the stools, &c.for engaging said supportsubstantially as described.

8. The combination with a stool, chair or similar article, provided withsockets, of a support therefor, composed of bent spring metal formedwith a plurality of depending members or legs and having angular endsdisposed on substantially a common axis and loosely pivoted in thesockets in the article and provided with shoulders adjacent to said endsadapted to form a rest for the article and a retaining device on saidarticle arranged to engage said support between said adjacent members,substantially as described.

at. As a new article of manufacture,a support or leg for furnitureconsisting of bent spring metal having angular ends disposed onsubstantially a common axis and provided with shoulders adjacent to saidends adapted to form a rest for the article to which the support isapplied, substantially as described.

